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By Michelle Brutlag Hosick
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Conferences: The Big Ten Conference will launch the 24-hour Big Ten Network in collaboration with Fox Cable Networks at 7 p.m. August 30 with the inaugural telecast of Big Ten Tonight, a studio-based news, information and highlight show. It has distribution commitments for more than 75 cable systems in eight states. The launch is two days before the official start of Big Ten football ... The Big West Conference welcomed the University of California, Davis, as its newest member. UC Davis completed the reclassification process from Division II to Division I earlier this year. The Aggies field teams in 17 Big West sports. The University of Northern Colorado and Longwood University also reclassified earlier this year. Both schools compete in several different conferences. Longwood has announced its intention to compete in most sports as an independent ... The Southeastern Conference unveiled a new Web site commemorating the league’s 75th anniversary. The Web site is part of a year-long “Stories of Character” celebration that will include highlights of 75 former student-athletes. The celebration and its multimedia initiatives were part of a collaboration between the conference and Creative Presence Partners ... The Sun Belt Conference announced earlier this month that comprehensive academic and athletics performance standards will be implemented, particularly for basketball, football, baseball, softball, volleyball and women’s soccer. All Sun Belt schools will be expected to achieve minimum expectations both athletically and academically, including Academic Progress Rates, attendance, scheduling and recruiting. The conference laid out specific initiatives for various sports and for conference members overall.
Facilities: The University of Akron approved plans for a $55 million on-campus football stadium earlier this month. The facility, to be named InfoCision Stadium and Summa Field, is expected to open in time for the 2009 home opener against the University of Kentucky. The stadium is expected to hold 30,000 seats, including a club level and open-air loge seats and 15 private suites. It will feature academic classrooms and labs and rooms for advising and tutoring. Officials determined that renovating the current Rubber Bowl would cost more than building a new facility.
Miscellaneous: Rider University unveiled a new logo earlier this month, 80 years after its first “Roughrider” logo was developed. The new “Bronc” logo came from a collaboration between the school’s marketing committee and Phoenix Design Works, which used focus groups of coaches, student-athletes, faculty, staff, alumni, administrators and student-government representatives for input. “This was a very inclusive process that was a lot of fun to work on,” said Rider Athletics Director Don Harnum. “I believe the end product is something of which everyone can be extremely proud.” ... New Mexico State University football student-athletes will wear pink socks and coaches will wear pink golf shirts for their September 29 home game against the University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff. Part of a fund-raiser for breast cancer research, the student-athletes will also wear pink ribbon stickers on their helmets and the field will be painted with large pink ribbon stencils. The band will wear pink, too. Coach Hal Mumme’s wife June was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996 and is now in remission ... The University of Florida Athletic Association is donating $6 million to the university to support academic programs jeopardized by state budget cuts. Upon announcing the gift, Florida President Bernie Machen said, “Our athletics programs have had tremendous success in the past couple of years. It takes a great academic university to be a top athletic university.” The money will be used to help pay for continuation of the Florida Opportunity Scholars program. The scholarship pays for tuition, room and board for qualified students who are the first in their family to attend a four-year university and have family income less than $40,000. The program, in its second year, contributed to gains in minority enrollment over the past year. Since 1990, the association has given $40 million to the university for its academic programs.
Facilities: The University of Akron approved plans for a $55 million on-campus football stadium earlier this month. The facility, to be named InfoCision Stadium and Summa Field, is expected to open in time for the 2009 home opener against the University of Kentucky. The stadium is expected to hold 30,000 seats, including a club level and open-air loge seats and 15 private suites. It will feature academic classrooms and labs and rooms for advising and tutoring. Officials determined that renovating the current Rubber Bowl would cost more than building a new facility.
Miscellaneous: Rider University unveiled a new logo earlier this month, 80 years after its first “Roughrider” logo was developed. The new “Bronc” logo came from a collaboration between the school’s marketing committee and Phoenix Design Works, which used focus groups of coaches, student-athletes, faculty, staff, alumni, administrators and student-government representatives for input. “This was a very inclusive process that was a lot of fun to work on,” said Rider Athletics Director Don Harnum. “I believe the end product is something of which everyone can be extremely proud.” ... New Mexico State University football student-athletes will wear pink socks and coaches will wear pink golf shirts for their September 29 home game against the University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff. Part of a fund-raiser for breast cancer research, the student-athletes will also wear pink ribbon stickers on their helmets and the field will be painted with large pink ribbon stencils. The band will wear pink, too. Coach Hal Mumme’s wife June was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996 and is now in remission ... The University of Florida Athletic Association is donating $6 million to the university to support academic programs jeopardized by state budget cuts. Upon announcing the gift, Florida President Bernie Machen said, “Our athletics programs have had tremendous success in the past couple of years. It takes a great academic university to be a top athletic university.” The money will be used to help pay for continuation of the Florida Opportunity Scholars program. The scholarship pays for tuition, room and board for qualified students who are the first in their family to attend a four-year university and have family income less than $40,000. The program, in its second year, contributed to gains in minority enrollment over the past year. Since 1990, the association has given $40 million to the university for its academic programs.© 2010 The National Collegiate Athletic Association
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